Teacher commits suicide over wife’s infidelity

Samuel Asabre Fukwuo, a 51-year-old teacher, has committed suicide by hanging himself on an orange tree at Santramo near Suhum.

The deceased was a teacher at Santramo Zorh District Assembly Primary School, and has been buried according to the Muslim Religion.

According to family spokesperson, Fukwuo and his wife were settlers at Suhum and that he had been teaching at that School for the past four years.

He said for four years of the couples stay in Suhum, Fukwuo's wife never lived with him, but rather lived with her mother and visited the deceased and the three children occasionally.

The spokesperson said the deceased, who suspected the wife to be having an affair with another man, confronted the wife several times, but the woman always denied the allegation.

He said on the day the incident occurred, Fukwuo invited his three children into his room and gave GH¢1,500 to the eldest child, GH¢1,000 to the second and GH¢200 to the third for their upkeep.

According to the spokesperson, Fukwuo told them that he was traveling and might not come back. He left them and later went to commit suicide.

When the police at Suhum was contacted, they confirmed the story.